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The Lawyer Who Let the Hitchhiker Win: Dan Wake on Eat the Wind

2026-10-1339:09

Dan Wake was 28 and litigating at a big Washington, DC law firm when he walked away to backpack through Asia with one deadline: whenever the money ran out. On his first day in Manila, he wandered into a political rally and ended up 50 feet from Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. A few weeks later, the Philippines had a revolution. He wrote the whole trip down when he got home, saved it to a floppy disk, and left it in a drawer for 35 years. That story is now his new book, Eat the Wind: Travels with...

A Paris Guide to Eating and Drinking Well, From Someone Who Lives and Breathes French Food and Wine

2026-10-0638:15

Marion Cazes has been obsessed with food since she was three years old, demanding oysters while her sister asked for French fries. She grew up in Toulouse, spent eight years in PR and communications for luxury Paris hotels and then for chef Alain Ducasse, and somehow still didn't know much about wine until she left that world behind for the one she actually wanted: leading private food tours through Paris, running a food concierge service, and working as a personal wine shopper for visitors w...

AI Has Never Slept in a Hotel Bed: Pauline Frommer on Why Guidebooks Still Matter

2026-09-2932:41

Pauline Frommer's dad wrote a book for broke GIs stationed in Berlin so they'd stop being afraid to leave base. It became Europe on $5 a Day, the best-selling guidebook of all time. Seventy years later, Pauline runs the company he built, and she's still making his case: you don't need money to travel well, you need real information. In this episode, Pauline breaks down exactly what's wrong with asking AI where to eat in Rome (an AI has never slept in a hotel bed, and 95% of what it's repeatin...

A Jungle in Sumatra, a Lighthouse in Nicaragua, and What Traveling With Your Kids Teaches That School Can't

2026-09-2229:26

Think traveling the world with kids is too complicated, too expensive, or just… not realistic? This episode might change your mind. I'm joined by Rebecca Ryell, a family travel coach, travel podcast host, doctor, and mom of three boys, who has spent the past 25 years figuring out how to make long-term, meaningful family travel actually doable. We start with the moment that hooked her on travel for good: getting rescued by fishermen at 18 after she and a friend ran out of fresh water on a trek...

Hut-to-Hut in the Swiss Alps: Hiking 70 Miles with Teenagers

2026-09-0842:28

Lia Heath tried to book the Tour du Mont Blanc for her family in early February. She got laughed at. Some huts on that route open reservations at 7 a.m. and sell out in five minutes flat. What she booked instead turned into eight days and 70 miles across the Swiss Alps with her husband, Tad, and their two teenagers, William and Damen, hut to hut from Martigny to Zermatt on the Walker's Haute Route. In this episode, Lia and I talk through how a booking agency like Mont Blanc Experience gets yo...

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